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2. Rockport (company) - Wikipedia

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   The shoes carried no name until Katz learned that others were copying the shoes and calling them "Rockport type" shoes. He subsequently returned to Marlborough and started branding the shoes as "Rockport". [4] Rockport Philippines. In 1971, Saul Katz and his son, Bruce, formed The Rockport Company from Highland Import. [7]

3. Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company - Wikipedia

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   [6] [2] The company embraced the concept of overseas manufacturing and pioneered the idea of the comfort shoe. Revenue grew to almost $100 million in sales before acquisition by Reebok in 1986. [7] [8] [9] When his stockpile of 24 pairs of Rockports [7] [5] began to run out, Katz wondered where his next pairs of shoes would come from. [7]

4. Bruce R. Katz - Wikipedia

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   Bruce Richard Katz (February 17, 1947 – June 26, 2022) was an American entrepreneur who co-founded The Rockport Shoe Company in 1971 and served as its CEO until its sale to Reebok International in 1986. [1] He was the founder and CEO of The Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company based in Mill Valley, California. [2]

5. Reef (company) - Wikipedia

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   Reef is a brand of casual sandals, known as flip-flops (Australia: thongs, New Zealand: jandals), created by two Argentine brothers, Fernando and Santiago Aguerre. In 1984, they moved from Argentina to the San Diego beach community of La Jolla , California, where they began Reef.

6. Socks and sandals - Wikipedia

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   The Britons are, according to The China Post, "famed for fashion blunders like wearing socks with sandals". [10] Wearing socks and sandals is considered rather unaesthetic in the Czech Republic; however, some people prefer socks and sandals, and a part of the population prefers both the options (sandals with and without socks). [11]

7. Sole Technology - Wikipedia

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   [1] The Sole Technology Institute (STI) was established in 2003. STI Lab is a first-of-its-kind research and development facility that conducts biomechanical skate shoe research. [1] [2] [3] In May 2024, etnies, éS, Emerica and ThirtyTwo were acquired by Nidecker Group, a Swiss action sports equipment conglomerate. [4]

8. Papal shoes - Wikipedia

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   The color of the episcopal sandals varied to match the liturgical color of the Mass. The Papal outdoor shoes were made of plain red Morocco leather and had a wide cross in gold braid. The cross once extended across the shoe and down to the sole. In the eighteenth century the ends of the cross were shortened, as shown in the photo of Pius VII's ...

9. Huarache (shoe) - Wikipedia

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   Modern designs vary in style from a simplistic sandal to a more complex shoe, using both traditional leather as well as more modern synthetic materials. [ 2 ] Many shoes claim to be huaraches, but they are only considered traditional huaraches if they are handmade, and have a woven-leather form in the upper.